Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7095e4b551746cef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 13:56:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 960fdb86d6af436130afefbccdb6dd3a SHA-1: 5449279adf8a67e6a64e124871f103b201183b28 SHA-256: 7095e4b551746cef971dd5ca9c6a62b02005425ffa75987f514b09969f412910
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as a malicious PDF by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the document is designed to drive traffic to these sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/nokarowexed.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49avwqct32ewe967crscpsaz7d.com/ckupload/files/woxajimime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/bagowimikubovibusexavasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/kugikevipowafagazejap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d41c86034cc2e0ccd7150ebbf1fdfa01/togubofebezaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5i5f0ge16f5n9itlku5hrnpj16/luzilamixiforofuvage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/tudusagibojavikosiwofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/rubudax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098728042d5d---74408742384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/15520401396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cdfa0883b8---42066293283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608935a0c0e8b---vogawugexanudibisowepov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/20263099902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/vavevijegarunige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/41426773154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706ebc752f0---99500944213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5c8b3f7a7---31987875337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ec3667a3b---wizaramunorobapufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d733d5344b3---48574453025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/podomirodufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/pokejikunufonono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e361b3aec---koxizonorob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607881a040f69---11296593518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/wexubirusijivupen1622282170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f66fde9ca978cfcfbe3b1c2d1633baf/71053741219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=wildly+important+goals+examples+for+salesPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010af9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF9 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 14b6d0ee6d892c841562ca7d5ea2912df427073c9b33e0cb73719a375211a89b
font_02_sfnt_off00012476.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12476 17900 bytes
SHA-256: cbfa1da4880cc7887478719e87ca23588bd0858138fb64dfdefccaaeba197262